State-of-the-art high-resolution models are needed to reveal the ocean’s role in driving extra-tropical weather systems.
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The Size of the Great Salt Lake Affects Storm Precipitation
Utah’s most famous body of water is shrinking, and storms might deliver less precipitation than normal if that trend continues.
Tracing Millions of Years of Geologic Stress in the Andean Plateau
Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago.
Physics + Machine Learning Provide a Better Map of Ocean Measurements
A new study offers a compelling example where the merger of dynamical modeling, machine learning, and ocean measurements enhances oceanographic understanding, monitoring, and mapping.
The Invisible Hand of Carbon Dioxide on Forest Productivity
A statistically robust approach applied to long-term flux measurements quantifies forest ecosystem response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, providing a valuable benchmark for climate models.
Machine Learning Masters Weather Prediction
Community datasets and evaluation standards are needed to further advance machine learning for weather prediction.
New Observations Provide Insight into Soil Desiccation Cracking
A new application of distributed fiber optic sensing provides early detection of soil desiccation cracking behavior and illustrates, for the first time, the phenomenon of soil crack breathing.
Water Scarcity Likely to Increase in the Coming Decades
Hydrological modeling suggests that by 2100 more than 65% of the world’s population might, at least sporadically, lack access to clean water.
Seismology Helps Us Understand How Material Flows in Earth’s Deepest Mantle
Recent progress in the analysis of seismic waves enables us to determine where, and sometimes how, the base of the mantle deforms.